Portlands Quotes & Sayings

For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting. — Alessia Dickson

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do. — Charles Vest

Don't force things to happen. — Lisa Loeb

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again. — Rebecca West

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. — Ben Jonson

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow? — Mikhail Bulgakov

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light. — Frederick Lenz

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful. — Robert Ferrigno

A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions. — Alain De Botton

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own. — Alain De Botton